Each year, the University of Missouri hosts Show Me Research Week, a celebration of student research and creative activity representing almost every field and discipline on campus.

About 500 Mizzou students and postdoctoral fellows presented projects from April 14 to April 17, and of the students who chose to have their work judged, several received awards in each category at the closing reception in Memorial Union.

The following CAFNR students and their faculty mentors were recognized for their work:

Life Sciences

Maddie Dobbels, junior | biochemistry
Title: “Bifunctional Chelators for Pb/Bi Theranostic Applications”
Mentor: Carolyn Anderson, professor of chemistry

Kari Leake, senior | natural resources sciences and management
Title: “Using Remote Sensing Reflectance to Estimate Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Missouri Reservoirs”
Mentor: Lorena Pinheiro-Silva, post-doctoral fellow, School of Natural Resources

Kristyn Conrad, biochemistry (graduate student)
Title: “Defining Mechanisms of Golgi Retention in the ATP7A Copper Exporter”
Mentor: Michael Petris, professor of ophthalmology 

Bo Lyu, plant sciences and technology (graduate student)
Title: “IntegraG-Quadruplex Structures in 16S rRNA and Thermal Adaptation in Prokaryotes”
Mentor: Qisheng Song, professor of entomology

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Arden Fraley, junior | environmental sciences
Title: “Exploring a New Technique of Tracking Invasive Carp”
Mentor: Alba Argerich, associate professor; School of Natural Resources

Mentorship Awards

Jackie Limberg and Craig Schenck received the Research Mentor of the Year Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Limberg is an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology in the Division of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences. Schenck is an assistant professor in the Division of Biochemistry. Students celebrated with their mentors during the award presentation at the Celebration of Undergraduate Curiosity and Creativity, held April 14 in Memorial Union.